SCR-784 Radar

K84 radar trailer, 1947

Country of origin| USA
Type| fire control radar set

The SCR-784 was a radar set used by the U.S. Army designed to be an amphibious version of the SCR-584, to control the fire of anti-aircraft batteries,[1] and mounted on a searchlight trailer called a K-84. The set was used to guide the flare plane over the target.[2]

## Contents

* 1 Statistics
* 2 K-84 trailer
* 3 Surviving examples
* 4 See also
* 5 References
* 6 Further reading
* 7 External links

## Statistics

Frequency: 2,800 MHz
Pulse Width: 0.8 µs
Pulse Repetition Rate: 1707 pps
Vertical Coverage: 300 to 10,000 yards (270 to 9,140 m)
Indicator Type: display 7 inch PPI and, two 3 inch CRT's for range determination

## K-84 trailer

* built by Fruehauf Trailer Corporation
* Gross Weight is 13,165 pounds (5,972 kg).
* Tires are 9.00 X 20. 10 Ply.
* Electric brakes, and parking brake.
* Overall length 220-3/8"
* Overall width 97-3/4"

## Surviving examples

There are no known surviving examples of this array.

## See also

* List of U.S. Signal Corps Vehicles
* Signal Corps Radio
* G-numbers

## References

1. ↑ World Petroleum. M. Palmer. January 1947. pp. 72–. https://books.google.com/books?id=0S06AQAAIAAJ.
2. ↑ Army. Association of the United States Army.. August 1951. pp. 13–. https://books.google.com/books?id=ajNEAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA13-PA41.

## Further reading

* TM 9-2800 Military Vehicles, October 1947
* TM 11-1354
* TM 11-1454
* TM 11-1554
* TM 9-873
* SNL G-714

## External links

* Radar Descriptions - Mobile Military Radar.mobileradar.org.
* http://www.campevans.org/_CE/html/smpr83p25.html report on scr-784
* https://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=ac8728dc4f57ea22&q=mobile+radar+source:life&usg=__bIHfrqpGapgmikx-GCl7ANOKLKw=&prev=/images?q=mobile+radar+source:life&hl;=en
* http://sill-www.army.mil/famag/1948/NOV_DEC_1948/NOV_DEC_1948_COVER_TOC.pdf

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